Starbound: 'Spiritual' successor to Terraria

[Unkillable Cat]

If the Terraria devs get their Lunar update out before Starbound makes a half-decent update, I suggest you giving Terraria another go.

 

[Farage]

What game are you developing, remind me.

Casual popamole mobile watered down for kids kind of games.
Doubt any of you would have any interest in such things

 

[evdk]

If the Terraria devs get their Lunar update out before Starbound makes a half-decent update, I suggest you giving Terraria another go.

Tell me more.

 

[Dr Tomo]

No, it's not. The best developers are all depressed.

>gaben
>actually developing anything
nigger do you even business

Do you want Cliffy B, Ken Levine, or Kojima in there instead? If you don't like Gabe Newell being called a "game developer" better go and make some changes on wikipedia.

 

[MapMan]

Does this game has any gameplay yet?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Tell me more.

From what I can recall, the oft-toted Lunar update will add new things related to the moon cycle, including a new event with what can only be described as the endboss for Terraria. More importantly, and this is the bit that's hardest to get confirmation on, is the addition of more content and material that's found at high altitudes in the gameworld.

Other stuff is around 140 new items, another side event, achievements, progress bars for invasion events, more dyes and... sinks. Let's just get the "everything AND the kitchen sink" joke out for this update and be done with it.

No release date has been announced, but a 2014 release is probable.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

>gaben
>actually developing anything
nigger do you even business

He's developing the sequel to that game with the mute guy. Don't remember the name...it's been so long...

Spoiler

finally an excuse to repost these

>Gaben at E3 2011
>Seven forklifts bring him onto stage
>It takes several hours for him to stand upright
>He leans into the microphone
>Crowd shaking with excitement and suspense
>"Team...Fortress..(cough)3...
>Crowd cheers
>...You will be...able..
>Crowd draws in breath
>To...customize...your own...
>Crowd jumping at this time
>...Dragon dildos
>Crowd screams
>Gaben presses button on microphone that drops all his clothes at once
>Bulletproof cafes drop ceiling, but not fast enough
>Several bullets hit Gabe
>Bullets bounce back, hitting several in the crowd
>Gabe then reenacts meatspin

>Gaben at E3 2011
>doesn't announce Ep 3
>fans are so mad they put him in a rocket with the sun as its course
>rocket lifts off
>the earth follows the rocket
>scientists all over the world find out earth was actually a moon orbiting Gaben
>rocket is closing in on the sun
>sun swallows Gaben and earth
>Gaben's fat fuels the sun for an extra 10 billion years

>Gabe rolls on stage
>kills people in process.
>has to use gravity gun to set self on stage
>sweating with visible sweat spots.
>Gabe takes a sandwhich out of his backpocket and starts eating it in front of the audience, crying while doing so.
>gabe takes a big breath, audience gasps in excitement.
>gabe takes all the air in E3, suffocating everyone.
>Gabe announces to dead audience that Left4Dead 3 is coming out.
>rolls away.

>E3 2011
>Lights go out
>Spotlights point to center of the ceiling
>Gaben is being lowered by multiple reinforced steel cables
>He's wearing a moon costume that barely contains his obese body
>he's slowly orbiting above the crowd towards the microphone stand
>cable snaps unexpectedly
>Gaben falls straight into the crowd
>Dozens of people are crushed by him and either dead or seriously injured
>E3 is cancelled forever

>Gaben at E3 2011
>Finished a demonstration of Dota 2
>Suddenly, lights dim
>Crowd falls dead silent
>After a little while, Gabe's voice is heard
>Oh, just one more thing
>The number 3 fades in on the right side of the big screen
>Crowd starts to get excited, but only a small "woow" rolls through the room before it is quit once again
>The letter E appears on the left side of the screen
>Crowd is now roaring
>Gaben announces
>Have a nice E3!

>gabe waddles on-stage
>discusses portal 2 development
>says we'll see her in episode 3 with gordon
>leaves
>suddenly crowd is like oh wait

 

[Zewp]

Why do you think GabeN still hasn't released HL3? He's not working on it full-time because he's tired of being depressed.

 

[Metro]

All us haters can suck it since PC Gamer named Starbound the 95th best PC game of all time!

 

[Dr Tomo]

All us haters can suck it since PC Gamer named Starbound the 95th best PC game of all time!

Is Terraria high up in the list?

 

[Metro]

Here's the pisser: Terraria isn't even on the list.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Another website to remove from the bookmarks.

 

[Farage]

Does this game has any gameplay yet?

Maybe mining.
And some more mining.

Spoiler

And some more mining, maybe

eh, i have 153h clocked in mining

fixed

 

[Machocruz]

eh, i have 153h clocked in starbound,

I swear sometimes that time flows differently for me than others. I see a lot of you guys with hundreds of hours of time in a single game, with multiple games, like it ain't no thing. I have 200 hours in Civ 5, which not only is some kind of record for me, but feels like I had to play the game obsessively (which I did) to get to that number. I felt every hour of that 200. And that's a finished game (or was at the time i.e. vanilla version). Not criticizing or calling you out, by the way, it's just something that always strikes me. I literally shirk responsibilities to put that kind of time in, but other people seem to be able to manage their time just fine. Or maybe I can't into patience or immersion.

Even more bizarre to me is the people who claim that put 500+ plus hours into Fallout 3 or something like that; I did every single quest in that game, visited every location, two of the xpansions, and I don't even think I broke 70 yours. What the hell are people doing in that game? I can understand that in Mount and Blade or MMOs with their content updates, but Fallout 3? Where builds hardly matter and you get maybe two quests per town?

 

[SuicideBunny]

Even more bizarre to me is the people who claim that put 500+ plus hours into Fallout 3 or something like that; I did every single quest in that game, visited every location, two of the xpansions, and I don't even think I broke 70 yours. What the hell are people doing in that game?

mods and larping. but yeah, that would be like all my top three activity games combined and in a shitty game to boot.

 

[Metro]

I have like 80 hours in Starbound but only because I played it on a mac when my old PC died and I was having a new one built.

 

[jcd]

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[Stereotypical Villain]

Sounds way more boring than what some mods has already achieved... although Starbound 1.0 might fix the shitty creature generation and make it more like Terraria. We'll see though.

 

[Gerrard]

>Satrbound 1.0 comes out
>still has less content than Terraria did in 1.0

 

[SuicideBunny]

wasn't there a post ages ago when people complained about tiered progression being too similar to terraria's tiered progression that the progression wouldn't be tiered and totally different? that doesn't look totally different.

 

[Dr Tomo]

And everyone on the codex complained that the studio abandoned development, looks like Chucklefish has every intention to finish this game.

 

[Metro]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

 

[Zewp]

And everyone on the codex complained that the studio abandoned development, looks like Chucklefish has every intention to finish this game.

They do?

 

[Elim]

And everyone on the codex complained that the studio abandoned development, looks like Chucklefish has every intention to finish this game.

They do?

Looks more like: "Okay, finish this quickly, we will still not have half of the promised stuff in our 1.0 release, but fuck it, abandon ship! Good thing we got us a new office and gave other indie devs half of our money from Starbound, so dumb people have reason to think we actually accomplished something!
Time to make that new pirate pixel shitfest of a game! But this time we actually use a design document and hire some experienced project leader..."

Honestly, I wanted Starbound to succeed, I like games like that. I like building stuff.
But they showed such a lack of strong leadership that it is just embarrassing. It feels like a group of headless chickens tries to make a game.

 

[Dr Tomo]

Set sail for Wayward Tide!
08/09/2014 by palf·10 Comments
We’re incredibly excited to announce the latest in-house development at Chucklefish:

Wayward Tide is a co-operative top-down action adventure game, taking place in a treacherous archipelago during the golden age of piracy. You and up to three other friends will find yourselves in a bustling sea-town, ready to swash-buckle your way through five mysterious islands, of ever increasing riches (and difficulty). You’ll battle dangerous enemies, hoard treasures, solve fiendish puzzles and avoid deadly traps… or maybe you’ll backstab your crew to get ahead!


One of the key features we’re focusing on is the nature of the puzzles and traps, which will introduce a competitive edge to the co-op experience. For instance, you and your friends might find yourself dealing with a pressure plate trap.

The solution would involve everyone stepping off at the same time. Stepping off too early will unhelpfully drop a boulder on your friend. We’re currently planning on a way to resurrect co-op players from time to time, so it’s not game over if a few of you get killed along the way.

Be warned, however – Death comes at a price. If all players die, they’ll find themselves washed up at the starting town. The treasure will carry over, allowing them to upgrade in the town stores, but the next attempt at the island will be a different experience thanks to the randomly generated levels.






Planned Features:

• 1-4 Player Support (Local and Online Co-op)
• Competitive Co-op Experience
• Randomly Generated levels
• Five distinct islands with their own theme, enemies, puzzles and traps
• Modding Support

The Team:
Allow us to introduce ourselves, we’re a dedicated team at Chucklefish – Working independently from the Starbound team.



SamuriFerret- Artist | Palf - Coder | Rosie - Producer | Supernorn - Artist


Community and Modding:
We’re still very early in development, and there are a lot of decisions yet to be made. The vibrant community of Starbound has been a great success, and that’s partly due to the modding scene. We want to encourage the same with this game, so the current plan is to make our development toolset available shortly after the game is released.

We’ll be looking to the community to tell us what they want to see, so get in touch via this blog, or alternatively on Twitter (@waywardtide).
*source

So d1p for many people in this thread?